The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Letter sorting section at the Australian Base Post Office. This section dealt with mail matter for every unit of the AIF, some 600 bags being made up daily. During the quarter ending 31 December 1918, 3,300,000 letters were sorted and despatched.
Checking and despatching mail bags down the chute to motor lorries waiting below at the Australian Base Post Office. During the quarter ending 31 December 1918, 109,000 bags of mail matter were despat
Sorting newspapers at the Australian Base Post Office, showing key to sorting racks for the information of new female sorters. Newspapers were the only class of mail matter despatched from the Base Po
Portion of the redirection sorting room at the Australian Base Post Office, showing an Australian mail of 750,000 letters being compared with record cards. The mails were received from the various Sta
Opens with interior shot of postal sorting room. Postal bin marked 'Pacific'. Shots of men and women sorting parcels and weighing mailbags. 'PMG Melbourne Aust.' on the mail bag. Scene change to truck
Scenes include; main entrance to the general Post Office Melbourne. Mail from the country being unloaded into postal vehicle. Sorting of mail. Date stamping machine in operation. Postmen leaving t
A portion of a huge stack of over 30,000 bags of Australian parcels at the Australian Base Post Office. During the Christmas period of 1918, 37,450 bags of Australian parcels were received, containing
